Holiday shoppers are busy nailing down deals on smart TVs, cookware sets, and leather handbags at big-name online and retail stores. Native business owners and individual entrepreneurs offer an alternative during the holiday buying rush with gift ideas that make both an impression for the receivers and a difference for the sellers. We have some experts on gifts made by Native Americans that you might not have thought of.

GUESTS

Rico Worl (Tlingit and Athabascan), social designer and founder of Trickster Company

Major Robinson (Northern Cheyenne), owner of Sage & Oats Trading Post

Tally Monteau (Hunkpati Dakota), project manager for Triia with NADC

Calvin Crosby (Cherokee), owner of King’s English Bookshop and executive director of Brain Food Books

Break 1 Music: I Walk with You (song) Joseph Fire Crow (artist) Face the Music (album)

Break 2 Music: Ts’ma’antut ‘Nüün (song) Saltwater Hank (artist) Siip’Nsk (album)